Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity—literally, servers in Amazon's data centers—that you use to build and host your software systems.

Amazon EC2

Develop for Amazon EC2

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CloudFormation resources for Amazon EC2

Documents the CloudFormation resources and properties for Amazon EC2.

Migrate to Amazon EC2

VM Import/Export User Guide

Import your virtual machine images to Amazon EC2.

Workloads on Amazon EC2

User Guide for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2

Provides a conceptual overview with guidance about how to launch and configure Microsoft SQL Server on an Amazon EC2 instance.

Best Practices

Architecture Center: Compute and HPC Best Practices

Browse AWS best practices that can help you leverage our compute services for your high performance computing (HPC), edge computing, and hybrid cloud architectures.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Documentation

Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 User Guide

Amazon EC2 Instance Types

AWS Nitro Enclaves User Guide

AWS Windows AMIs

Develop for Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 Developer Guide

Amazon EC2 API Reference

EC2 Instance Connect API Reference

AWS CLI commands for Amazon EC2